Tuesday, March 27, 2012

After checking the homework this morning, each member of the class shared an example of a topic sentence for his or her paragraph.  Some of the students were confused were guided back to the idea of what the purpose of a topic sentence is.  I like the fact that some of the guiding comes from other members of the class and not just from me.

The next phase of this activity will involve developing the body of the paragraph where the students will come up with 3 supporting details to elaborate on the topic sentence.

We began a journey into the human body today in Science.  The students created a title page and brainstormed what they know about the human body and how it works.  I have ordered a kit and videos from the TDSB to support and enhance what we will be learning about in class.

The students had Library this morning and some members of the class had Band.

In the afternoon, I read -- as I typically do-- and we worked on our cursive selection for the day.  For a group of 6 students, they had an intense review session for a Math quiz tomorrow morning on subtraction.  We will be starting another unit in a day or two.

 

I am proud to say that we are on track to begin working on the Strength Based Resiliency project.  The students will be working in small groups tomorrow and have some homework from this project.  A number of students remembered some of the discussions we had and I think this will be an important project for them.    I will comment more at a later time.

 HOMEWORK:  Complete Science title page and brainstorm; Rewrites for Math test tomorrow morning